#heroforge

[galoogamelady]

So heroforge.com has released a beta version of their face sliders and....

I made Buttons. You're welcome. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D42105427/

I can't look at it in detail because it needs a Pro account but the hair is giving...

#which is funny because the Voros twins are also of Hungarian descent lol #Heroforge #lookalike #Buttons #Voros Twins #The Voros Twins #netsimmer

[tincan-tophat]

#starkid #hatchetfield #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #npmd spoilers #wiggly #blinky #nibbly #tinky #webby #pokey #heroforge #birdie’s stuff

[make-an-undertale-blog-why-not]

so there's this really cool website called heroforge and its basically a really in-depth character creator, and, well, yknow,

#kris dreemurr #susie deltarune #ralsei #deltarune #spamton #spamton g spamton #spamton neo #hero forge #heroforge

[the0verboss]

Who got hella bored and decided to make a bunch of pirates in HeroForge and then bought a 3D printer so they could print them?

I did….

#heroforge #ofmd #ofmd crew #our flag means death #3d printing #izzy hands #oluwande boodhari #jim jimenez #lucius spriggs #black pete ofmd #ofmd roach #ofmd the swede #ofmd frenchie #ofmd wee john #ofmd ivan #ofmd fang #ofmd spanish jackie #blackbeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard

[black-and-yellow]

Can't stop playing with HeroForge (not a sponsor) (as if someone would sponsor a Mic blog on tumblr)

Honestly some of the poses are pretty fun and I might end up using some as references for Loudspeaker drawings because just look at him he looks dope.

#character creation my beloved #need to make it my mission to create a Mic in every character creator in all the games I play #mha #bnha #hizashi yamada #present mic #shouta aizawa #loudspeaker au #heroforge #I can't actually order any of the figures because no money and no reason to buy a tiny tabletop figure #but I like to play with the software #giving me inspiration for Mic drawings

[dottymatrix]

This is one of my map art submissions for the competition yesterday on the JoeHills Patreon Vanilla SMP, Deep Slate Nine.

It's a 3D map I built and tore down over six weeks. It's called "Madonna of the Statues Book" and is inspired by Caravaggio paintings... and also my Heroforge design for the MCYTblr Sexyman competition.

#hermitcraft #hermitblr #heroforge #joe hills #zombiecleo #minecraft map art #built in survival

[glossolali]

The boys' heroforges from my SWM scifi cyberpunk h/c fic! t'was a soup cult winter's crest gift exchange fic for beloved @wanderingbasilisk and fun as hell to write. enjoy 💜🧡💜

#shadowidomauk #swm #cr fic #critical role fic #shadowmauk #shadowgast #mollymauk #essek #caleb #glossopost #glossofic #heroforge #scifi au #bare chest cw

[sn0wbat]

might as well share this one too?

miniature andalite originally made in heroforge, then edited a little in blender, 3d-printed and painted.

#mostly done for miniature painting practice hehe #andalite #animorphs #heroforge #irl shenanigans #my brother was the one who did the blender edit. this was a little collaborative project #this is no character in particular #maybe animorphs tumblr likes this idk

[transprincecaspian]

Zyrus Crataerius

astral elf - druid - circle of the stars - astral drifter

#bro the lighting totally washed out how pink his skintone is #i prommy i tried to make him look like an astral elf lmaoooo #oc: zyrus #astral elf #circle of the stars #dnd oc #dnd #dnd druid #heroforge

[swiftwolf29]

Heroforge mini of Pocketcat from ‘Fear & Hunger’

#my post #pocketcat #fear & hunger #fear and hunger #the new catfolk template from #heroforge #gave my friend & I some ideas #I think it worked pretty well #but I couldn’t get Pocketcat’s cunty crop-top jacket quiet right

[kelenloth]

How do they rise up, rise up rise, up... Hail the Glorious 25th of May, friends. GNU Terry Pratchett. Made on HeroForge.

#glorious 25th of may #night watch #terry pratchett #heroforge #sam vimes #lord vetinari #reg shoe #john keel #nobby nobbs #fred colon #gnu terry pratchett

[thrashfish]

guys i think he died

#undertale yellow #uty #starlo #utdr #safeutdr #heroforge #my stuff

[taylorhebertweakestlittlebug]

Some of the notorious Birdcage cell leaders:

#heroforge #worm #parahumans #wormblr #Galvanate #Galvanate worm #Black Kaze #Black kaze worm #Acidbath #Acidbath worm #Ingenue worm #gravel #String Theory worm #Gravel worm #birdcage #the birdcage

[wildjuniperjones]

Juniper’s Massive World-Building Resource List

(Shamelessly cribbed from a dozen different sources)

1. The Checklists

These are the kinds of things that present you with a list of questions about your world, that you then answer as creatively as you want to. I find myself continually having to go back and add to them, because goodness sometimes I just want to write and not think about stuff that isn’t directly relevant to the plot...until it is. And then suddenly I have to think about the ramifications of that.

CRV’s Worldbuilding Checklists (originally from btot.de) - obviously more fantasy-focused Patricia Wrede’s Worldbuilding Lists - a good balance between fantasy and other genres

2. The Masterlist

This link has nearly everything you can think of. It’s not the be-all-end-all, because nothing is, but it’s damn good.

r/Worldbuilding’s Resources List

3. The Visuals

Yes, there’s the ever-present AI-generated images, things such as Artbreeder or Wombo Dream, but sometimes you need something more concrete. Like maps. Or people.

Also, pay artists to make beautiful things whenever you can. AI art is designed to remove the actual humanity from the creative process, and while it’s fine for face claims or inspiration, I would never ever use it as, say, my book cover.

Alsoalso, learn a little something about graphic design. Please. Color theory. Rule of thirds. I beg of you.

Things I have used for maps:

Inkarnate - Browser-based, but almost entirely fantasy-focused

Wonderdraft - Large-scale mapping for countries/continents/worlds

Dungeondraft - Smaller scale mapping that shines when doing smaller areas, especially interiors (both ‘drafts are from the same creator, and are desktop only) There is not, as of yet, a Towndraft, although the community is ravenous for it!

I highly recommend the art packs from Cartography Assets, although if you’re going to use them in a commercially released work, do be a good human and pay the artists for their work! If you want to do sci-fi or modern maps, this is where to get your assets!

Things I have used for people:

HeroForge - A 3D tabletop miniature creator with a vibrant modder community. The free version lets you create as many figures as you want, but their Pro deal lets you organize them into folders, which I absolutely love. It also lets you save specific colors/materials to use across multiple figures, which saves a lot of time when creating folks with a shared uniform. You can even import people/outfits/poses from other figures! I’m told that facial feature modification, clothing patterns, and kitbashing are coming this year! (I’m a little addicted, as you might’ve noticed.) Best on desktop, but you can get a quick “sketch” done on mobile.

Picrew - A truly massive collection of portrait creators. The Discord associated with it is really helpful, in that you can frequently get links to creators that meet your specific requirements, like ‘must have elf ears and POC skin tones’ or ‘must have heterochromia and vitiligo’. This site got me through the roughest parts of 2020. Great for mobile.

Meiker.io - Similar in scope to Picrew, Meiker has a few treasures, including a lot from the now mostly defunct DollDivine, which relied entirely on Flash. There are a few that I return to again and again, but not many. Best on desktop and very easy to create your own creators.

Neka.cc - A Chinese-based site with a lot of similarities to Picrew, although a lot less diversity, both in skin tones and bodies. Great for mobile.

Storior gets an honorable mention because it has a ton of potential, with a lot more options in some respects, but precious few in others. Best on desktop. Can you tell I really love these things?!

4. The Organizers

It helps to have somewhere to store all this information, right? Preferably in an easily accessed database? Perhaps with links or prompts?

These are the ones I’ve used:

World Anvil - Browser-based, incredibly detailed and complex, even for the free version. I found it to be too complicated to figure out, but maybe it’ll be your cuppa!

Campfire - Browser-based, mostly focused on writers, and has a suite of options that you can opt into or out of. This also wasn’t as useful to me, since there’s nowhere to put an outline!

Kanka.io - Browser-based, and just this perfect sweet spot between bare bones and overloaded. There are specific modules you can enable or disable, like in-universe calendars, dice rollers, character journals, etc. It’s my preferred option for organizing my world-building, outside of things like Google Docs.

I also understand a lot of writers like using Scrivener for their work, but as I have Linux, I don’t have any experience with it.

5. The Rest

So, a lot of world-building comes down to how well you know our world. I love world-building because it means I get to use all my education and interests together to create something that feels realistic to my readers and players. This is a time when ADHD is absolutely useful! Chase those squirrels! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve ended up reading an article on, say, rivers, only to end up with an idea for how leylines function in my world!

So here are my top 5 recommendations for figuring out how our world works:

Sociology! - If you want to know how different cultures interact, why certain customs come about, or just how a population reaches a decision, learn about sociology. It’s probably my favorite subject, and most useful to very culture-focused world-builders.

Geology! - If you want to know how your world fits together, what it’s made of, where things like mineral or gem deposits might be or how they might form... in addition to how rivers, lakes, and “strange” geographical features form, geology’s a great place to start.

History! - Okay, maybe this one is cheating, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read about something in history and thought “what if it went this way instead?” BAM, there’s a premise for you. (I have an entire novel idea built around that, told mostly through a writer interviewing a famous figure in this alt-history for their biography. After seeing the popularity of Dracula Daily, I almost want to release it like that...)

Ecology! - Oh man, if you want to figure out the botany and zoology of your world, ecology is a great place to start. It builds very nicely off of geology, and covers such a broad range of topics and how each of these pieces interact with one another - like how hydrology affects meteorology affects climate affects plant distribution affects animal distribution... which of course then affects culture!

I’m going to be sacrilegious in the eyes of some of my fellow world-builders here and NOT put linguistics - not because it’s not useful, just because it’s not a field I know much about. Instead, I’d suggest looking at world myths and religions. Yeah, it’s technically part of sociology, but if you’re developing a world from scratch, the creation stories that the sentient species tell themselves can inform a lot of their culture.

For instance, the world that Starcrossed, Amongst the Goblins & the Fishes, and The Silver Hand are all set in is an alternate Earth where magic never left the land. The creation myths in this world are much more centered around humanoids living in harmony with nature, rather than dominating it. In fact, some of the human societies have a specific taboo against desecrating the earth that is taken to such an extreme that other species, like elves and dwarves, occupy that niche instead, acting as stewards of the forest and mountain because they don’t have that same taboo. Part of these myths explain the existence of ley lines, and why they wither and die out (because of excessive logging, destructive farming/mining, or large-scale slaughter of creatures). Will this ever come up in Starcrossed? I highly doubt it. But it figures into the other two VERY prominently.

Phew! That was quite a tangent. Anyway - did I get any of your favorites? Do you have something you’d like to add? Should I make this all a separate page so it’s easy to access and update it regularly? Tell me things! Ask me things! I am an open book and love talking about world-building! Tell me where you’re stuck and maybe we can figure out a way forward together! (Also hmu on Discord, I am so mediocre at Tumblr.)

#worldbuilding #world-building #world building #master list #writing #ttrpgs #dnd #d&d #cartography #heroforge #picrew #neka.cc #meiker.io #adhd has a purpose! #for me it's to assemble all the college majors I started on and never finished #into a nice tidy package #and then inject massive quantities of fantasy or sci-fi into it #also #pay artists what they're worth #ai art is useful ONLY as inspiration #NEVER use it for the final product #even if you're going for a cubist/techno-cultist angle #get a real artist to make real art #before corporations suck even MORE life out of that ecosystem

[hakureiryuu]

sometimes i hyperfixate on some very niche things

(designs loosely inspired by milkie2)

heyo, heroforge just released semi-transparent plastic, which makes doing hollowheads a lot... well, not easier. but doable haha. victim out here lookin like slenderman tho ngl

hands are in fists whenever possible bc stick figures don't have fingies. emphasis on whenever possible tho. i aint gonna make yellow punch his screen for the aesthetic.

istg ive made so many minecraft wing designs, and this is the first time ive seen an actual beetle's elytra in heroforge's wing models, im obsessed.

edit: fixed chosen's hands bc they were bothering me.

#animator vs animation #animation vs minecraft #alan becker #avm purple #avm green #avm blue #avm red #avm king orange #ava victim #ava the chosen one #ava the dark lord #ava the second coming #avm yellow #heroforge

[dingodoodles]

Hey everyone, we've got a very exciting announcement to make!

We've partnered up with HeroForge !!!

To celebrate the upcoming launch of the Fool's Gold campaign setting, we've worked with HeroForge to introduce heaps of exclusive new content, including new races, items, outfits, and more! They've had to develop a ton of new tech to make it work, and we're all super excited to finally show things off. Now you can make your own custom characters to get ready for the Fool's Gold book launch!

--- CHECK IT OUT HERE --- https://heroforge.com/foolsgold

We're also happy to announce our new community contest: Mini Design! In our Discord: https://bit.ly/3SCX9Mf

You have until July 9 to design our own epic Fool's Gold inspired mini on HeroForge and post pics of your creation to get a chance at winning your custom mini which will be printed and mailed to you as a prize! Check out the Discord #announcements for more details.

And if all that wasn't exciting enough: The Fool's Gold campaign setting PDF is right around the corner! Kickstarter Backers will receive early copies of the PDF THIS FRIDAY on June 30. Then after a couple weeks of review and implementing backer feedback, the PDF will go live to backerkit as well! Thank you so much for your patience through all this. But it's finally here! :D

#dungeons and dragons #dnd #fools gold dnd #heroforge #dnd 5e #miniatures